Comments on: “Life and Death” http://www.eastsidepatch.com/2010/03/%e2%80%9cpiping-the-patch%e2%80%9d/ Landscape Design & Garden Blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:03:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ESP http://www.eastsidepatch.com/2010/03/%e2%80%9cpiping-the-patch%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-1041 ESP Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:46:27 +0000 http://www.eastsidepatch.com/?p=6676#comment-1041 Hi Annie. I totally stumbled on Tresco as a result of finding the picture that won the award last year, it looks like an amazing place, a place that I would like to visit one day, perhaps my next visit to the homeland? Oh who am I kidding, I am always way to busy when I get over there! That is one crazy story about the Cichlid! A little "Re-Animator" for my liking....Brrr! Jack ate everything including his tank! The loquats are the best I have ever seen them with our recent rains. They do tend to recess in our hottest months, but mine are still relatively young, I think (and hope) that as they mature they will retain all their foliage in our summer...time will tell. The mountain laurel is a bit of a tortoise on the growth front, but I have to say, a gardening / lasagna guru a few doors down, planted a bunch in the duplex adjacent to the Patch. I will not tell you how long these took to grow for fear of sending you into a deep laurel depression! They grew at an amazing speed, double the speed of mine! His apparently were the Hare's of the laurel world! As usual...soil is key, even for a reported "slow grower". You also do not want to know how fast his Texas Sable major and minor grew in the same soil! I am still in shock at how fast that screen went up! ESP. Hi Annie.

I totally stumbled on Tresco as a result of finding the picture that won the award last year, it looks like an amazing place, a place that I would like to visit one day, perhaps my next visit to the homeland? Oh who am I kidding, I am always way to busy when I get over there!

That is one crazy story about the Cichlid! A little “Re-Animator” for my liking….Brrr! Jack ate everything including his tank!

The loquats are the best I have ever seen them with our recent rains. They do tend to recess in our hottest months, but mine are still relatively young, I think (and hope) that as they mature they will retain all their foliage in our summer…time will tell.

The mountain laurel is a bit of a tortoise on the growth front, but I have to say, a gardening / lasagna guru a few doors down, planted a bunch in the duplex adjacent to the Patch. I will not tell you how long these took to grow for fear of sending you into a deep laurel depression! They grew at an amazing speed, double the speed of mine!
His apparently were the Hare’s of the laurel world! As usual…soil is key, even for a reported “slow grower”. You also do not want to know how fast his Texas Sable major and minor grew in the same soil! I am still in shock at how fast that screen went up!

ESP.

]]> By: ESP http://www.eastsidepatch.com/2010/03/%e2%80%9cpiping-the-patch%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-1040 ESP Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:17:47 +0000 http://www.eastsidepatch.com/?p=6676#comment-1040 Hi Diana. Yes, better to think social behavior then "Are you dead yet? Are you dead yet? Can I start eating you yet? :-) The Patch has really jumped this last couple of weeks, though some plants are still seriously slow to emerge from dormancy this year...as for my Mexican lime tree? Still no sign of life...patience...patience (yoda)! The Mountain Laurels have been spectacular, if only I had more sun I would plant a line of them too. The rains seemed to intensify their aroma this year. Thanks for popping in. ESP. Hi Diana.

Yes, better to think social behavior then “Are you dead yet? Are you dead yet? Can I start eating you yet? :-)
The Patch has really jumped this last couple of weeks, though some plants are still seriously slow to emerge from dormancy this year…as for my Mexican lime tree? Still no sign of life…patience…patience (yoda)!
The Mountain Laurels have been spectacular, if only I had more sun I would plant a line of them too. The rains seemed to intensify their aroma this year.

Thanks for popping in.

ESP.

]]> By: Annie in Austin http://www.eastsidepatch.com/2010/03/%e2%80%9cpiping-the-patch%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-1039 Annie in Austin Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:15:05 +0000 http://www.eastsidepatch.com/?p=6676#comment-1039 Henry Mitchell wrote about Tresco but he used words only - no photographs... it's cool to see the aerial view, ESP. Sorry about your fish - can remember my daughter's large Cichlid jumping out of the tank to lie between stand & wall for nearly a day before being discovered. Went to bury it and it was alive - lived for a few more years after being returned to the tank. No partner fish there - 'Jack' ate everything else. Your loquats look great and so does the Texas Mountain Laurel. Mine is blooming at last, but no way could I expose the trunk... after 4 years in the ground it's still only 15" tall. Hope to look up at the flowers some day - or at least have them at nose level! Annie at the Transplantable Rose Henry Mitchell wrote about Tresco but he used words only – no photographs… it’s cool to see the aerial view, ESP.
Sorry about your fish – can remember my daughter’s large Cichlid jumping out of the tank to lie between stand & wall for nearly a day before being discovered. Went to bury it and it was alive – lived for a few more years after being returned to the tank. No partner fish there – ‘Jack’ ate everything else.

Your loquats look great and so does the Texas Mountain Laurel. Mine is blooming at last, but no way could I expose the trunk… after 4 years in the ground it’s still only 15″ tall. Hope to look up at the flowers some day – or at least have them at nose level!

Annie at the Transplantable Rose

]]> By: Diana http://www.eastsidepatch.com/2010/03/%e2%80%9cpiping-the-patch%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-1038 Diana Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:46:46 +0000 http://www.eastsidepatch.com/?p=6676#comment-1038 I'm with you on the behavior of the friend fish. I'd much prefer to believe he was trying to offer comfort in the old fish's last moments, rather than waiting for the buffet to open like Luby's. Your garden is springing back wonderfully. I'm loving the smell of the Mountain Laurels, too. I have 5 along the drive and it's heaven to go get the mail right now! I’m with you on the behavior of the friend fish. I’d much prefer to believe he was trying to offer comfort in the old fish’s last moments, rather than waiting for the buffet to open like Luby’s. Your garden is springing back wonderfully. I’m loving the smell of the Mountain Laurels, too. I have 5 along the drive and it’s heaven to go get the mail right now!

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